Marc Forné i Molné (; born 30 December 1946) was the

prime minister of Andorra The head of government of the Principality of Andorra (), alternatively known as the prime minister of Andorra, is the chief executive of the government of Andorra. They are appointed by the General Council. The position was created in 1982 aft ...

from 7 December 1994 to 27 May 2005. After 2 full terms, he was succeeded by

Albert Pintat Albert Pintat Santolària (; born 23 June 1943) is an Andorran citizen who served as the prime minister of Andorra from 27 May 2005 to 5 June 2009. Pintat graduated from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1967, majoring in economics. ...

after Pintat won the April 2005 election. He is a lawyer by profession, and was president of the

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(''Partit Liberal d'Andorra'').

Biography

Marc Forné was born on 30 December 1946 in

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, the son of Antoni Forné i Jou, an Arfa-born lawyer and activist of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, and Joana Molné i Armengou, also born in La Massana. He studied at the

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where he graduated in

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in 1974. Between 1969 and 1972, he worked as a civil servant in the Department of Public Services of the General Council of the Valls d'Andorra and from 1974, he worked as a criminal lawyer, sharing an office with his father and brother. In 1985, he joined the

. For eleven years, he held the position of director of ''Andorra-7'', a weekly newspaper in the Pyrenees valley that he founded in 1978. He was also the president of the Moto Club of the Principality of Andorra.

Honours

* : Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (02/06/2006).Boletín Oficial del Estado
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References

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